Highlights•Shifts focus from disruptors (eg crowds) to the disrupted (eg establishment).•How
do the disrupted resist potentially transformative ideas?•Methodology for analyzing people …

The core of social identity theory is that individuals define themselves in terms of the groups
that they have strong ties with. In this chapter, we seek to explore the circumstances in which …

It is widely recognized that the number of international wars has declined continuously since
the mid-1960s, whilst internal conflicts and civil wars became more numerous than those …

It is by now well recognized that one of the major obstacles in the cultivation of historical
thinking (Seixas 2004) in the formal educational system of post-conflict societies is the …

In historically divided societies, narratives play an important role in understanding the
maintenance and perception of identities and group status over time. Moving beyond the …

Disruptive experiences are opportunities for learning, yet, people often resist them. This
tendency is evident in individual experience, organizational behavior, and denialist …

One of the major challenges in divided societies is finding ways to overcome geographical
partition by increasing readiness for cohabitation in mixed areas. Cyprus has faced a …

Generally speaking, we can distinguish three factors influencing the content and form of
history curricula: politics and society; pedagogical and psychological considerations; and …

This introduction to the special issue on conflict and memory aims to underscore the
importance of memory (whether individual and collective) in relation to intergroup conflicts …

Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding suggests that we need a
radical change in how we think about war, leadership, and politics. Most of us, political …